Transducer Electronic Data Sheets (TEDS)

IEEE P1451.4 is an emerging standard for adding plug and play capabilities to analog transducers. The underlying mechanism for plug and play identification is the standardization of a Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS). A TEDS contains the critical information needed by a device or measurement system to identify, characterize, interface, and properly use signals from an analog sensor. That information includes the sensor's model number, model ID, calibration constants, scaling constants, and more.

A TEDS is deployed for a sensor in one of two ways: